Short:        GUI for RC5 contest. Help Amiga win it!
Author:       R.Patriarca@flashnet.it (Roberto Patriarca)
Uploader:     R Patriarca flashnet it (Roberto Patriarca)
Type:         util/misc
Version:      1.11
Architecture: m68k-amigaos
Distribution: Freeware




 -=* What is Myzar? *=-

Myzar is a graphical front end for the Amiga RC5DES client. Its purpose is to
make it easy for Amiga people to join the RC5 contest, thus helping the Amiga
gaining exposure over other platforms and OSes.


 -=* What is RC5? *=-

The RC5 contest is, as the words suggest, a contest. RC5 is an encryption
method very common over the Internet. In early 1998 RSA Labs proposed a
challenge: 10000 dollars to those who can crack a message encrypted with a 64
bit RC5 key. The challenge was taken by distributed.net, who choose a "brute
force" approach: try EACH of the 2^64 possible keys, until the one that "fit
the lock" is found. To do this, they envolve ten of thousand of computers over
the Internet, own by people who decided to give their spare CPU cycles to